Blog — Energy Management
A collection of practical articles on energy management, efficiency, and sustainability.
01 Greetings from an energy manager
Originally posted on 2018 Greetings from an energy manager! My name is German Hernando, I am an energy manager, and I work since 20 years in the field of the...
02 Energy management... where to start?
Originally posted on 2018 Energy management... where to start? The situation is that you join a new company and you have to understand the process soon and get energy...
03 Energy targets. Allocating targets and time of the energy team
Originally posted on 2018 Energy targets for the energy team. In this post I will deal with the topic of energy targets. For which different approaches can exist. [caption id="attachment_108"...
04 The process of finding energy projects
Originally posted on 2018 Finding energy projects. [caption id="attachment_116" align="aligncenter" width="446"] Description of the process diagram to get energy projects[/caption] Finding energy projects. The first phase of the process...
05 How to correctly measure energy savings from a project
Originally posted on 2018 How to correctly measure energy savings from projects. In this post we will see how to correctly measure energy savings generated after implementing an efficiency project....
06 Fine tuning or redesign? Select the right strategy. Part 1
Originally posted on 2018 Fine tuning or redesign? Part 1. Prioritizing saving potentials. When setting priorities in the search for savings potentials there are several quick tools and approaches that...
07 Fine tuning or redesign? Break even point. Part 02
Originally posted on 2018 Energy efficiency break even point. In this post I am going to talk about fine tuning or redesign: energy efficiency break even point . But I'm...
08 A bit of code. Programming for energy data management
Programming for energy data management I am going to talk about programming. I am not an expert but I believe that programming is essential for an energy manager. The reason...
09 IoT and energy management, a long friendship
IoT and energy management. Cost and size reduction. Increased processing and communication. IoT and energy management. Internet of things impacts industry. It has a great application in the field of...
10 The energy detective in face of very few counters
Why the energy detective? The question today is how to measure the energy consumption of a production building with only one counter. And when we have several overlapping process. We...
11 An Energy Program
Energy program with four tools [caption id="attachment_224" align="aligncenter" width="516"] Energy program with four tools[/caption] I will explain below an energy program that I propose in which we act on...
12 Energy map
Energy map. In this post I develop one of the tools that made up the energy program which I proposed in the An energy program post: an energy map. The...
13 Inventory list
Inventory list. Today I will develop another of the tools of the energy program proposed in the article Energy Program: the inventory list. The objective is to disclose potentials that...
14 Energy workshops
Energy workshops Earlier I talked a lot about energy efficiency, the majority focused on the production and distribution of energy in the company. Likewise, in the energy program, the three...
15 Short term metering
Short term metering This is the fourth tool of the energy program that I introduced in my post: an energy program. Short term metering aims to discover potentials that come...
16 Technical projects
Technical projects Today I will talk about the fifth and latest tool of the energy program which I proposed. Another source of energy projects are generic technical projects. I mean...
17 Energy dashboards
Energy dashboards In this post I am going to talk about energy dashboards. An energy manager has to produce tools for control and communication that help the energy team and...
18 Data discrimination.
Data discrimination. In this article I will talk a little more about theoretical consumption, about normalization of energy values influenced by known variables. Specifically, how data should be discriminated when...
19 Fault detection (automatic).
Fault detection (automatic). In this article, I am going to talk about fault detection (automatic) due to their impact on energy consumption. This is a previous step to fine-tuning or...
20 Building commissioning
Building commissioning In this article I am going to talk about building commissioning for fault detection. These kind of failures (elements, controls, etc.) represent a negative impact of energy. [caption...
21 Virtual energy data system
Virtual energy data system In this post I will explain an idea to convert a building management system (BMS) into a virtual energy data system that will guide us when...
22 Air compressors audit
Air compressors audit One of the areas with high energy consumption is the generation, distribution and use of compressed air. It is very important to design the system in an...
23 Squeezing the energy data
Squeezing the energy data In this post we will make the most out of the energy data when this is scarce. For the example, let's focus only on electricity and...